1984/03/01 by Graham Young · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance #Ideological and Political Education #Communism #Politics #Theme (computing) #Political science #Nothing #Cultural revolution #Realigning election #China #Political economy #Order (exchange) #Public administration #Law #Socialism #Sociology #Economics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0305741000008481
openalex publication_date 1984/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The legacies of the Cultural Revolution have been nowhere more enduring than in the Chinese Communist Party organization. Since late 1967, when the process of rebuilding the shattered Party began, strengthening Party leadership has been a principal theme of Chinese politics; that theme has become even more pronounced in recent years. It is now claimed that earlier efforts achieved nothing, and that during the whole “decade of turmoil” until 1976, disarray in the Party persisted and political authority declined still further. Recent programmes of Party reform, therefore, still seek to overcome the malign effects of the Cultural Revolution in order to achieve the complementary objectives of reviving abandoned Party “traditions” and refashioning the Party according to the new political direction demanded by its present leaders.